Mind Your Business: Launch into 2025
Mind Your Business
Launch into 2025 with our Mind Your Business roundup
January 2, 2025, 3:30 pm CST
As you gear up for a productive 2025, check out our Mind Your Business advice from the past year. Mind Your Business was launched in 2020 as a way for lawyers to share practical advice. If you have hard-won knowledge of your own that you’d like to pass on, scroll to the bottom to find out how you can join the conversation.
Do not be mistaken: Maintaining privacy compliance can be a complex and moving target. The checks and balances your company required 10 years ago are no longer adequate.
Advice from marketing experts is valuable and useful, assuming you do not oversimplify your legal knowledge. Here are some ways to incorporate marketing advice into your legal training without sacrificing it.
Businesses are increasingly aware of the importance of emotion in making decisions. Harvard Business Review research shows that emotional connections can lead to significant gains.
The way you handle a crisis can make the difference between a quick resolution and a public nightmare. Consider these seven lessons for helping your clients navigate their next crisis.
Few law schools offer their graduates LinkedIn workshops to help them build their personal brand and gain an edge in the hiring process. Even the best law schools are outdated when it comes to self-branding courses. Or, as many attendees of my recent online seminar lamented, marketing courses are not offered at any point.
Lawyers should be aware of the benefits, drawbacks and best practices for incorporating insurance in AI risk management to better advise their clients.
Contract management. Updates on compliance. Discovery responses Intellectual property portfolio management. In-house counsel can easily fit these repetitive, time-consuming tasks into their daily schedule. What’s the problem? Many can turn into expensive time sinks for the legal department’s salaried staff.
It was reasonable to wonder if existing methods of accessing knowledge such as templates or keyword searches would become obsolete. Why would you use the old methods of finding specific pieces of information when you can ask the AI to do it for you?
Many law firms are looking to increase diversity, equality, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging within their team. Here are five tips on how law firms can implement DEI best practices by 2024.
Legal recruiting will also begin in 2024. We have seen a number of transfers between law firms and groups. The market also expects several major mergers to occur this year. As we begin this new year, let me ask you: Do you know who is your legal recruiter?
Lynda Shely, an Arizona attorney, says that representing family members or friends is never going to be a good idea. Shely is the immediate past chairperson of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She works in private law and has advised over 2,500 firms across the country on legal ethical matters.
Are You Interested in Contributing Your Own Business Wisdom to ABA Journal Readers in 2025? The ABA Journal welcomes submissions from subject matter experts and legal professionals for the Mind Your Business Series. Here are the submission guidelines.
